Videogames Used to Train Terrorists?

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Videogames Used to Train Terrorists?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday October 2, 2006 @04:37AM from the guessing-its-not-barbie-horse-adventure dept.

kalpatin writes "Reuters reports that videogames are being used to train terrorists. The title Counter-Strike is apparently being used as a tool to prepare individuals for a mission: blowing up an oil tanker. The ultimate goal is to 'make the strait of Hormuz impassable, the Jomhouri-ye Eslami daily reported. About two-fifths of globally traded oil passes through the channel. The game illustrates a warning by Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who said in June that oil exports in the Gulf region could be seriously endangered if the United States made a wrong move on Iran.'"

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Guns used to train terrorist too.... by RingDev · 2006-10-02 04:39 · Score: 4, Interesting

And yet we focus on video games?

-Rick

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"Most people in the U.S. wouldn't know they live in a tyrannical state if it walked up and grabbed their junk." - MyFirs
Why, YES! by ludomancer · 2006-10-02 04:41 · Score: 5, Interesting

They are. It goes both ways I think: http://www.americasarmy.com/
So what? by Pig+Hogger · 2006-10-02 05:31 · Score: 4, Interesting

So what?
The US have plenty of "antiterrorist" video games.
The US have plenty of nukular weapons.
Why are the yankees allowed to have video games and not the iranians?
Why are the yankees allowed to have nukular weapons and not the iranians?
Re:Not Surprising, and it's already being done by Aim+Here · 2006-10-02 05:45 · Score: 4, Interesting

For the record, Under Siege (and Under Ash, the other game by the same people) don't condone terrorist actions, focusing instead on attacks on the Israeli IDF, which is illegally occupying several other countries. (Attacking on-duty soldiers is warfare, not terrorism, by most definitions of the word).

In fact, killing civilians ends the game instantly; the game is far MORE sensitive to charges of terrorism than many pro-American so-called anti-terrorist tactical FPSes.